Foresight and Strategy Project Lead - Crystal City, United States - The Aerospace Corporation

The Aerospace Corporation
The Aerospace Corporation
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Crystal City, United States

3 weeks ago

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Description

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation's space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise.

As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers.

When you join our team, you'll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.

  • At Aerospace, we are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace for all employees to share in our common passion and aspiration to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.
Work Model


This position is envisioned as a hybrid position in Crystal City, Virginia with a roughly 70/30 mix of in-office and remote work.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Provide fulltime support to the Lead Futurist and Director in growing Aerospace's Strategic Foresight Team (SFT)
  • Support the scaling of the foresight competency across the corporation through teaching, collaboration, and mentorship of the Aerospace staff on core foresighting principles
  • Support the horizon scanning team to find new indicators of change, create and improve process formulation, content generation, and synthesize insight into reporting for executive leadership and customers
  • Comfortable with frequent briefings and interactions with senior government officials and corporate leadership
  • Understand customer problems and issues and turn them into tasks that you and other Aerospace technical staff can support
  • Identify new capabilities and enhancements to current capabilities that will better support the customer base
  • Facilitate workshops and events with internal staff and external thought leaders to advance insights for the enterprise
  • Occasional travel may be required
What You Need To Be Successful

Foresight and Strategy Project Lead

  • Minimum Requirements:_
  • An undergraduate degree in science, mathematics, engineering, legal, policy, or related technical field
  • 8 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience, including multidisciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments
  • Strong analytical and research background in topical areas such as global and regional economics, geopolitics, emerging technology, law, etc.
  • Experience in mid to senior level strategic planning activities
  • Strong communications skills, comfortable briefing senior leadership and a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
  • Teamoriented with a proven ability to work in a fastpaced environment, adapt quickly to change, and demonstrate initiative under pressure
  • This position requires the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance, which is issued by the US government. US citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
Sr. Strategic Foresight Team Project Lead

  • 12 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience, including multidisciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environment
  • Experience as a Senior Leader in the government or private sector in strategic and decisioning support
How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of the following:

  • Current TS/SCI clearance
  • An advanced degree in science, mathematics or engineering
  • Formal strategic foresight education and/or training and/or certification
  • Familiarity with using digital tools, modeling/simulation or other AIenabled platform capabilities to enhance foresighting practices
  • Broad exposure across enterprise portfolios in space and/or national security
  • Published work in recognized foresight journal/publication
  • Creator of foresighting, critical thinking tools
  • Professional facilitation experience
Leadership Competencies

Our leadership philosophy is simple:
every employee, regardless of level and role, can demonstrate leadership. At Aerospace, our commitment is our people.

To cultivate our talent and ensure that we have a strong pipeline of future leaders, we want individuals who:


  • Operate Strategically
  • Lead Change
  • Engage with Impact
  • Foster Innovation
  • Deliver Results
Ways We Reward Our Employees

During your interview process, our team will provide details of our industry-leading benefits.

Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type


_A few highlights include:
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  • Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
  • Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
  • Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
  • 401(k) Plan — Employees receive a total companypaid benefit of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Variable pay program for except
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